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Johm Brown* s aBti'-alavepg career"->ObiQ» Pennsyl'* vania, etc*
(From motioBary of Jmericaii Biographj, Tol # III«
[p. 131] Jotai Brown (May 9, 1800«Dec« 2^ 1859) **01d Brown of Osawatomie," is now irhiefly remembered for his raid on Harper's Periy# He was bom at Torrington^ Conn., the son of Owen and Ruth (Mills) Brown # » # #Owen Brow^ plied various trades in the Connect!smt villages in which he sojourned • « # » One of [his] moves took him to Hudson, Ohio, where Joto passed his boy¬ hood. Owen was twice married and became the father of sixteen children* He was a man of much piety, an abolitionist, and an agent of the underground rail¬ road*
John' s schooling was scanty, and reading formed the principal part of h&s early education*
• « • • «In 1820 [John] married Dianthe Lusk, who in the twelve years of her married life bore him seven children • « . • • [She died in 1831]* * * [p. 132] Within a year John Brown married Mary Mne DsLff a girl of sixteen, of rolmst physique, who in twenty-one years bore him thirteen more children*
In 1825 Brown moved to Richmond, Pa*,
where he cleared the land of timber and set up a tan¬ nery® « « He soon went to Springfield, Mass*, and opened a [brokerage office] for wool-growers* It soon failed* • « He determined to settle with his family in a newly-founded commmiity of negroes at lorth Elba,

Johm Brown* s aBti'-alavepg career"->ObiQ» Pennsyl'* vania, etc*
(From motioBary of Jmericaii Biographj, Tol # III«
[p. 131] Jotai Brown (May 9, 1800«Dec« 2^ 1859) **01d Brown of Osawatomie," is now irhiefly remembered for his raid on Harper's Periy# He was bom at Torrington^ Conn., the son of Owen and Ruth (Mills) Brown # » # #Owen Brow^ plied various trades in the Connect!smt villages in which he sojourned • « # » One of [his] moves took him to Hudson, Ohio, where Joto passed his boy¬ hood. Owen was twice married and became the father of sixteen children* He was a man of much piety, an abolitionist, and an agent of the underground rail¬ road*
John' s schooling was scanty, and reading formed the principal part of h&s early education*
• « • • «In 1820 [John] married Dianthe Lusk, who in the twelve years of her married life bore him seven children • « . • • [She died in 1831]* * * [p. 132] Within a year John Brown married Mary Mne DsLff a girl of sixteen, of rolmst physique, who in twenty-one years bore him thirteen more children*
In 1825 Brown moved to Richmond, Pa*,
where he cleared the land of timber and set up a tan¬ nery® « « He soon went to Springfield, Mass*, and opened a [brokerage office] for wool-growers* It soon failed* • « He determined to settle with his family in a newly-founded commmiity of negroes at lorth Elba,